After many years at our Jarvis street location in downtown Whitehorse, the Yukon Land Use Planning Council office is moving.
Starting December 16th you can find us in the Nuvo building, also downtown and only a block away from the old office:
Suite 302 - 309 Strickland Street
Whitehorse, YT
Y1A 2J9
Please note that our phone number will remain the same.
YLUPC is redesigning its website and is seeking feedback on how best to go about it. We hope to launch it in spring 2023.
Click here to fill out this short 5 minute survey before November 30th and you'll be entered to win this awesome draw prize:
The Consultation on the Dawson Recommended Plan has been extended to December 20th!
The Plan Parties (Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and Yukon Governments) are consulting on the Recommended Plan before either approving it or recommending a final round of changes back to the Dawson Regional Planning Commission. Though they will not be leading the consultation, they will attend many of the consultation events. See you there!
Since the Dawson Regional Planning Commission's Recommended Plan went public, the Commission staff recognized that it is a large document and wanted to make parts of the plan more accessible and easy to find. We have helped them do this by creating a series of new web-pages on their website that try to better explain some core concepts. All the information on these pages were taken from the documents the Commission posted here, though in some cases text was rewritten for clarity or information was analyzed to better show patterns and relationships.
This work may set the stage for a separate, user-friendly version of the plan. It also demonstrates some ideas for a future website that helps assessors and project proponents use the plan. Proponents could use guidance on that website to refine their proposals before submitting them to YESAB.
Stantec Consulting has been hired by the Yukon Land Use Planning Council to review the Dawson
Recommended Plan that has been produced by the Dawson Regional Planning
Commission.
This work will be used to inform YLUPC’s formal submission to the Parties on the
Recommended Plan. It is important that this review assesses the approach to planning and
includes suggestions for plan modifications.
The Recommended Plan has been delivered to the Parties (Government of Yukon, Tr’ondëk
Hwëch’in) and Affected First Nations (Na-cho Nyak Dun and Vuntut Gwitchin). The Parties
are required to undertake community consultation on the plan before they make a
decision whether to approve, modify or reject the plan.
The Dawson Regional Planning Commission's Recommended Plan is now public. You can find the Recommended Plan, and the Recommended Plan Summary here.
The Plan Parties (Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and Yukon Governments) will consult on the Recommended Plan before either approving it or recommending a final round of changes back to the Commission. More information on their consultation process can be found on their site onthelandwewalktogether.ca.
Proceedings and Themes and Actions from the 2021 Land Relationship Planning Gathering: Using Indigenous Knowledge to Improve Regional Planning in Yukon are now available and can be viewed on our Documents Page.
Ron Cruikshank, who was our Director since 1998, retired on June 28th (2022). He brought his planning experience on the Mackenzie Delta and beyond to our office. Under his watch, a Common Planning Process and Yukon planning regions were developed, as well as three regional planning processes. We held a jovial retirement party for him at the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse; photos below.
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On June 10 2022 the Dawson Planning Commission completed a major milestone in the Dawson Regional planning process. At the top of the Midnight Dome in Dawson City they officially handed over the Recommended Plan for the Dawson Region to the Parties and Affected First Nations. The Commission was honored to hand the Recommended Plan to Premier Sandy Silver, Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Chief Roberta Joseph, and Na-cho Nyäk Dun Deputy Chief Roberta Hager. Now that the Recommended Plan is officially in the hands of the Parties the next phase of the process is for the Parties to conduct their consultation with stakeholders and the public on the Recommended Plan. The Plan will be released publicly for consultation by the Parties in Fall 2022.
In the meantime, the Commission and staff are working hard to finalize the In Your Words Report: A summary of engagement on the Draft Plan, the Plan Highlights document, and a summary version of the Plan.
The Commission would like to express their gratitude to all of the members of public, citizens, stakeholders, and the Parties for the incredible amount of work that they contributed to the development of the Recommended Plan. The Dawson Region is an incredibly special place for all of us, and this would not have been possible without the passion and respect that everyone has shown this past year.
We are all looking forward to the public release of the Recommended Plan and the consultation period this fall.
Have a wonderful summer!
YLUPC hosted a booth at the General Assembly of the Council For Yukon First Nations at Minto Landing on June 29, 2022.
This was a great opportunity to provide information on regional land use planning and answer questions of First Nation delegates and citizens. In attendance for YLUPC was the Chair - Lois Craig, Senior Advisor - Copper Joe Jack, and new Director -Tim Sellars
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